Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

[Robert Goley <ragoley@rdasys.com>]

I would agree that many are support now.  I have had a lot of luck with 
Toshiba.  They seem to have more models that have compliant components.  
If you want a serious development laptop, Look at the X505 series.  I 
ordered one with a quad core i7 series with hyperthreading 6 GB ram, 64 
GB solid state and 320 GB HDs.  It acts like 8 processors to linux.  
Using the -j8 fage for make this makes compiles go real fast in most 
cases...  The only catches were having to load the Nvidia drivers and 
having to install the Realtek wireless driver from their site.  The 
Nvidia is not opensource but works well.  The Tealtek is distrubuted as 
source but not sure on licensing.  Can't remember off the top of my 
head.  Everything else worked out of the box with Lenny.  I did use the 
backports 2.6.30 kernel though...  Even things like the webcam worked 
with no issues....

Robert

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > So, it appears that, in Western Australia, neither laptop computers, nor
> > desktop computers, are available, that are new, that are compatible with
> > Linux, and that are reasonably priced (under 1100 AUD), and that can do what
> > I want (including 1240x1024 graphics resolution).
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> Don't about Western Australia, but there are nowadays some computers you
> can buy which come natively with support for GNU/Linux.
> Other than Dell, I'll mention the Lemote machines (hard to get outside
> of China, tho, in my experience), the Fit-PC2, the TouchBook, ...
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